Music thread

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<p>The radio station I’m listening to right now is playing clips from Sarah McLachlan’s “I Will Remember You” in honor of the 9/11 victims. I just love that song…it’s one of the best things I’ve ever heard. Too bad it only appeared on the movie soundtrack album of “The Brothers McMullen.” It always makes me feel a bit weepy, but particularly so today. <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-McMullen-Original-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B000002VPR/sr=8-2/qid=1157986182/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-5283435-2631824?ie=UTF8&s=music[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-McMullen-Original-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B000002VPR/sr=8-2/qid=1157986182/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-5283435-2631824?ie=UTF8&s=music&lt;/a&gt;
Got me cryin’</p>

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<p>driver, Sarah is one of my favorite recording artists. I’ve seen her in concert many times. I Will Remember You is also a track on her live cd, Mirrorball.</p>

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<p>Yes, I remember having heard that live version. I just wish that had been a lead song on one of her studio albums. It seems to me to have been a misplaced masterpiece (who do you know that saw that movie…or listens to alternative radio?). I don’t think I could come up another song that is so deeply, soulfully romantic. August was my Patti Smith month; September is going to be my Sarah McLachlan month. Getting back in touch with my inner-young person.</p>

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<p>It is available on vinyl also (if you still own a turntable): <a href=“http://www.musicdirect.com/products/detail.asp?sku=LCLA2000-2[/url]”>http://www.musicdirect.com/products/detail.asp?sku=LCLA2000-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I’m going to have to play it this evening. I feel kind of guilty just going through my usual day to day activities today. It definitely is a day to reflect.</p>

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<p>The music discussion threads seem to be a common ground for discussion for folks who often are unable to communicate in the poltical threads.</p>

<p>It is refreshing.</p>

<p>AudioP, I am also feeling a little disconnected today, unable to concentrate on standard business day activities. </p>

<p>l am listening to Springsteen’s “My City of Ruins” as we speak.</p>

<p>Driver, thanks for starting this thread.</p>

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<p>“Music has charms to soothe a savage beast”</p>

<p>So true. Take my word for it.

But you really have to hear her sing it.</p>

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<p>I love Sarah Mclauglan, I admit I haven’t listened to her much lately.
I am really sensitive to music and noise ( not that I have great hearing)
I have to have my itunes at the gym, and there are certain artists that I like to listen to everyday, and if I don’t turn on music but am just listening to traffic or news all day, by the end of the day I am unusally irritable ( House: * I didn’t know a woman could be “unusually” irritable* ), and have to think to realize why</p>

<p>( I am premenstrual right now so I really don’t need anything that is going to make me more weepy)</p>

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<p>EK: TMI.:slight_smile:
I bought the new Bob Dylan CD “Modern Times” over the weekend. For any of us older boomers who have grown older (not old!) along with his music, how can we not love the man? Fitting music for this day: wise, loving and hopeful.</p>

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<p>Sarah McLachlan: Canadian. </p>

<p>Love Dylan’s new one.
In fact, I even like the stuff most people don’t like (70’s - 80’s).</p>

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<p>FS, I’m curious why you pointed out that Sarah is Canadian.</p>

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<p>FS, like Sarah, was born in Canada, you hoser :)</p>

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<p>Ah, thanks, Driver. I didn’t realize that FS was a fellow Canadian. :)</p>

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<p>Anyway, that Brothers McMullen soundtrack is pretty good. I’ve been playing it today, and while Sarah’s theme song is clearly the gem, there’s a lot of great Irish instrumental music on it that I hadn’t totally appreciated when I bought the CD 10 years ago.</p>

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<p>FountainSiren likes Dylan’s born-again Christian period: shocker!</p>

<p>I have a very precise and vivid musical memory of the morning of September 11, 2001. I was working in my office listening to “1, 2, 3 soleils . . .”, an album of Arabic pop, when one of my partners came in to tell me that his wife had called to say that a plane had crashed into the WTC, and then he came in again a few minutes later to say that there had been a second crash and it looked like terrorism. I turned the record off and turned on the radio, like everyone else in America, but a little while later (before the collapse) listened to the last 10 minutes of the album, recognizing that it was going to be awhile before I felt like listening to Arabic music again.</p>

<p>However, probably the most affecting “9/11” record I’ve heard is by Rachid Taha, the organizer of the concert documented on "1, 2, 3 soleils . . . " His 2004 album “Tekitoi?” (T’est qui, toi? – Who are you?) is a thoughtful, angry, and sad response from an Arab secular humanist and democrat to Islamic fundamentalism and European racism: a powerful reminder that the Arab world is not monolithicly Islamist or rejectionist towards the West.</p>

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<p>A very moving song reflecting on 9-11:</p>

<p>Leonard Cohen’s
“On that Day”</p>

<p>*Some people say
It’s what we deserve
For sins against g-d
For crimes in the world
I wouldn’t know
I’m just holding the fort
Since that day
They wounded New York
Some people say
They hate us of old
Our women unveiled
Our slaves and our gold
I wouldn’t know
I’m just holding the fort
But answer me this
I won’t take you to court
Did you go crazy
Or did you report
On that day
On that day</p>

<p>They wounded New York*</p>

<p>[JHS, </p>

<p>fwiw, Cohen is a Jewish Buddhist, which makes him, much like Dylan, then and now-- spiritual. I like that, there’s something vulnerable and honest about the longing in both…and I do not discriminate against any form of sincere spirituality unlike: the Taliban, al Qaeda, or your common run-o-the-mill Christ-o-phobes. Some just can’t resist.]</p>

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<p>As to what I was listening to on Sept 11, my 14th birthday:

[quote=Christopher Hitchens]
"Never mind where I was standing or what I was doing this time five years ago. (Because really, what could be less pertinent?) Except that I do remember wondering, with apparent irrelevance, how soon I would be hearing one familiar clich</p>

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<p>FS,</p>

<p>Isn’t Cohen another of your Canadian brethren?</p>

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<p>He is, indeed.</p>

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<p>He is indeed, and a great credit to Canada at that…the axis mundi of popular song craft, imho.</p>

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<p>Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Cockburn, k.d. lang, Barenaked Ladies.</p>

<p>Doug and Bob MacKenzie (hosers).</p>

<p>Canadians all.</p>